Career
Along with Donato Poveda formed the duo Donato & Estéfano, releasing three studio albums through 1995–1999. After the duo disbanded he went on to pursue a solo career with his album Código Personal: A Media Vida released in 2005. Estéfano has worked with Julio Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, Anahí, Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, Gloria Estefan, Jon Secada, Paulina Rubio, Noelia, Chayanne, Jerry Rivera and Thalía, among others
Estéfano left his home in Manizales, Colombia for the United States in 1989, arriving as an aspiring songwriter.
But the duo broke up soon thereafter, and Estéfano returned to his hitmaking ways as a songwriter and now as a producer also. First came some work for Chayanne, who hadn"t recorded an original album in years and the result was "Dejaría Todo", Chayanne"s first number one single in over six years.
Estéfano continued to write more chart-toppers for him in the years to come. Two other Latin popular artists who greatly benefited from Estéfano"s work around this time were Paulina Rubio with her best selling album ever, Paulina, and Thalía with her first (and to date only) number-one album on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, Thalía.
In 2005, by which time he had been awarded BMI"s Latin Songwriter of the Year honor (7) seven times and scored 39 Top 40, 22 Top Ten, and seven number one hits, Estéfano made his solo debut with Código Personal: A Media Vida, a collection of especially personal songs that he"d written for himself to sing.
However, this album was not as successful as his previous work for other artists.